Word: clocking
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...enough of this contrast. "The 13 Clocks" is another magnificent book, with all the sparkle of Thurber at his best. Amid the humor and the horse play there are lines of great beauty ("The Princess Saralinds. . . were serenity brightly like the rainbow." "Somewhere a clock dropped a stony chime into the night") One can enjoy this story for its verbal felicity alone...
...establish more sensible rules, and not to rely on individual favors from Housemasters to relieve the social pressures. With the football season over, dances and the like diminishd noticeably, and the problem of where to go of an an evening is a more serious one. Seven o'clock, or even eight o'clock, is no deadline for Harvard students...
...expansion of the business district forced out the alehouse. A group of alumni, under the name of Mory's Association, Incorporated, bought the present white colonial building on York street as a food-and drink club for Yale men, and moved in Louie, the old clock, the books, the tintype photos, and other reminders, of "Quiet House" and Temple Bar days...
Local squirrels are aflutter and the pigeons are going equirrelly under a combined land-air attack. Behind the disturbance are a large white cat and a duck hawk that uses the Mem Hall clock tower for a landing field...
...Odets temporizes as well as blunders. Beset by the problem of having to make the play run till 11 o'clock and of wanting to make it run till June, he stages a double retreat from life into show business, filling out the play with colorful backstage detail, phonying it up with facile on-stage emotions. His talent is-flawing again, but from a faucet in dire need of a filter, 'it is depressing to find so much shoddy in a play that can here & there merge deep compassion with burning anger...